I can't seem to get this working at all with the patch

Even with Ea's messed up 1.3 patch it seems to work ok on XP 64 bit - didnt need to change anything.

Had to alter the bf2.exe files security settings but other than that it ran ok on my machine

Works fine, a few glitches at the beginning. Must be run as administrator, plus first time playing is a little choppy, but after that it works fine. I think Vista does optimization behind the scenes that didn't take effect until it 'warmed up'.

Plays fine, but occasionally bluescreens in the middle of a game.

Almost ALWAYS bluescreens (!) when in the middle of loading a new map.

This is with 8800GTX and latest (beta) nVidia drivers - 158.24.